Introduction: Metacarpals and phalanges are injury prone in daily work and life. These constitute 10% of all fractures. Although these fractures are considered minor injuries, such injuries may cause major disabilities if not taken care of. Most hand fractures can be treated by nonoperative methods with good outcome. However unstable fractures need some form of fixation. Aim of our study is to ...

1 We are indebted to Milward (1994) for provoking and providing a starting point for this renewed research on coordination. Many of these ideas were discussed at various meetings and in email discussions and we thank the many participants: Caroline Brun, Max Copperman, Mary Dalrymple, Marc Dymetman, John Fry, Ron Kaplan, Lauri Karttunen, Martin Kay, Paula Newman, Mar a-Eugenia Ni~ no, Fr ed eri...

In general, not much is known about the arithmetic of K3 surfaces. Once the geometric Picard number, which is the rank of the Néron-Severi group over an algebraic closure of the base field, is high enough, more structure is known and more can be said. However, until recently not a single K3 surface was known to have geometric Picard number one. We give explicit examples of such surfaces over th...

Given a tree and a set P of non-trivial simple paths on it, Vpt(P) is the VPT graph (i.e. the vertex intersection graph) of the paths P of the tree T , and Ept(P) is the EPT graph (i.e. the edge intersection graph) of P. These graphs have been extensively studied in the literature. Given two (edge) intersecting paths in a graph, their split vertices is the set of vertices having degree at least...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.02.002 0950-5849/ 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Seville, Spain. E-mail addresses: [email protected], [email protected] (J.A. Galindo), deepak. [email protected] (D. Dhungana), [email protected] (R. Rabiser), [email protected] (D. Benavides), goetz.botterweck...

Biodegradable implants made from polyglycolic and polylactic acid co-polymers undergo degradation by hydrolysis which results in loss oftheir mechanical strength. The degradation of 1.5 mm polyglycolide rods (Biofix) was studied after intramedullary and subcutaneous implantation in rabbits. Two weeks after implantation there was a 73% reduction in strength of the intramedullary implants and a 6...

In a prospective trial, biodegradable polyglycolic acid rods were compared with Kirschner wires for fixation of wrist fractures (Frykman types I, II, V and VI). Fifteen patients were randomly assigned to each treatment group. There was no significant difference between the groups with regard to age, sex ratio and fracture type. Kapandji's pinning technique was used in all cases. There were no s...

This article gives a characterization of quotients complex tori by finite groups acting freely in codimension two terms numerical vanishing condition on the first and second Chern class. generalizes results previously obtained Greb–Kebekus–Peternell projective setting, Kirschner author dimension three. As key ingredient to proof, we obtain version Bogomolov–Gieseker inequality for stable sheave...